Notables

Donald F. Smith, dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine, received the 2000 Best Paper award of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) at the organization's annual meeting April 25 in New Orleans. He was cited for his paper "Expansion of Biomedical Research Programs During Implementation of a PBL [problem-based learning] Curriculum," which was presented at the 1999 AERA meeting. Smith credited department chairpersons for working with the college's central administration to balance faculty research and teaching efforts after the PBL curriculum was implemented in 1993 and noted that "some aspects of our PBL curriculum may actually enhance faculty research efforts."

Saadia Toor, an M.S. and Ph.D. candidate in development sociology, has been named among 257 candidates nationwide to receive one of 15 dissertation grants in women's studies awarded by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation to graduate students studying women's lives, history and literature. The $2,000 grant will go toward her research expenses for her doctoral dissertation, "The Politics of Culture and the Poetics of Protest: Pakistani Women and Islamisation, 1977-1988."